State of the Internet Security Report: Q2 2016 Findings

Akamai Chief Security Officer Andy Ellis discusses the Q2 2016 State of the Internet Security Report and cloud security trends, such as a 129% increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and web application attacks against countries such as Brazil.

Join Akamai and guest speaker Robert Mahowald, Program Vice President, SaaS and Cloud Services IDC. If you have a SaaS application or are building one you should attend! In this webinar you’ll learn about the key enablers to Cloud Software Adoption including:

1.The significance of Security and Performance for cloud software
2.The expected benefits and impact of SaaS
3.The most critical SaaS attributes by different organizational roles

Akamai sees more than 2 trillion Internet interactions every day and mitigates 40 – 50 DDoS attacks every month. Our security experts analyse this information and share trends, observations, and findings in the quarterly State of the Internet Security report.

Join Jay Coley, Senior Director, Enterprise Security Architecture at Akamai Technologies for an overview of what we found after analysing data from Q3 of 2016.

Key topics covered will include:
· Why DDoS of over 100 Mbps increased over the past quarter
· Which country is the new leader for most sourced Web application attacks
· Tactics Akamai used to mitigate two of the largest DDoS attacks we’ve seen

Mobile applications are one of the primary channels of user engagement today. Business who deliver great user experiences are laser focused on three things: the features a user wants, the user interface, and high performance applications. So, why has enterprise mobile app development historically focused only on creating a quick functional experience leaving “quality” performance as a problem to solve later?
This Forrester report “Building High-Performance Mobile Experiences” dives into the problem areas that impede mobile app performance. The report also provides guidance for app developers on how to tackle these challenges and make performance a priority.
Report Focus Areas:
•Elements of a great app experience
•Incorporating performance into the development process
•Architecture that is performance friendly

Get smart about bots - and manage them - to enable desired exchanges of information and thwart nefarious activity. Learn about the organizational impacts of unmanaged or blindly blocked bots, as well as bot management best practices. Topics to be discussed include:
•How bots adversely impact performance, customer engagement, satisfaction, sales and market share
•How just blocking bots can adversely impact both IT and the business
•How to develop an enterprise-wide strategy to proactively manage and categorize good and bad bots

Akamai Chief Security Officer Andy Ellis discusses the Q2 2016 State of the Internet Security Report and cloud security trends, such as a 129% increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and web application attacks against countries such as Brazil.